Cooking With Richard

Previously …

Before:

After boiling for 5 hours:

I’m now going to store these cans until I have lots of people round for dinner. But what modern classic am I making*?

* English people need not answer because it’s obvious for you.

We were in York this weekend for my brother’s wedding.

At Dean Court Hotel restaurant, head chef Andrew Bingham, delivered these delicious dishes. Terrine and sorbet:

Asparagus (overboiled, natch):

Local ham hock with pease pudding:

Lamb:

Several relatives made cakes for the wedding itself:

The wedding meal:

This chocolate fudge cake was astonishing:

Next day, a hangover cure:

Jerk chicken:

Somebody’s birthday cake:

and at the end of the evening, a cuban cigar …

Damn …

M-kun’s flatmate is on holiday in the countryside at the moment …

Previously …

Recipe …

This deserves about ten blog postings … in the meantime, this is me:

Apparently the Pacific saury from yesterday should point to the left, like this:

http://oshiete.eibi.co.jp/kotaeru.php3?q=117502

This NSFW bodypiercing site explains the phrase “dress to the left” (or right):

The Prince Albert piercing is named after Prince Albert, who was the husband of Queen Victoria of England. He was reputed to have had this piercing done prior to his marriage to the queen around 1825, at that time Beau Brummel started the craze for ultra tight men’s trousers. Because the pants were so tight, the penis needed to be held to one side or the other so as not to create an unsightly bulge. To accomplish this some men had their penis pierced to allow it to be held by a hook on the inside of the trousers. This piercing was called a Dressing Ring at the time because tailors would ask if a gentleman dressed to the left or the right and tailor the trousers accordingly.

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The fish is Pacific saury (in Japanese, sanma).

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I counted 25 starlings in the garden today. There appeared to be two adult pairs, and the rest were juveniles. Noisy.

Here’s that famous video of Bill Oddie watching starlings:

This video is actually about my level in Japanese, in that I can watch it and understand almost all of what the narrator is trying to say. I understand the sentences, but just what is going on?

(From JWZ)

Update

Apparently this is a sketch from バミリオン・プレジャー・ナイト (Vermillion Pleasure Night), a risque Japanese late-night variety show. For more of this see Oh Mikey which is somewhat reminiscent of the brilliant Leisure Town.

For the past three years I’ve been taking part in the Summer Burn. Once you join you get two friends assigned, and you have to send them each a mix CD of your favorite summer songs. They send CDs back to you.

Because I’m the laziest person in the world, I still have my summer burn CDs here, while my two friends have already sent me theirs:

One of them is alt.country-tastic, not precisely my cup of tea. The other was pretty good for the first half, but I haven’t got around to listening to the other half.

I’m sure they won’t like mine.

Three of my CDs shown in the photo above, because one is for the salon.

We seem to be all competing on packaging, rather than music. Look at this flickr group and weep:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/summerburn/

This is what it looked like last year:

Yeah!

Laughably bad terrorists watched some videos on the internet, go to Homebase, buy some propane cannisters and a can of petrol, and try to turn themselves into suicide bombers. Unfortunately they don’t understand even the basics of explosives. Perhaps next time they should buy the Anarchist’s Cookbook. There won’t be a next time for these fools because they will be spending a very long time at HM’s pleasure.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/29/more_fear_biscuits_please/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/02/terror_idiocy_outbreak/